Lionel Marchetti (France, 1967) is a composer of musique concrete. First self-taught, he discovered the catalogue of Musique Concrete with Xavier Garcia. He has composed in the CFMI of Lyon 2 University between 1989 and 2002, where he still organizes workshops focused on the loudspeaker, the recorded sound and Musique Concrete, both on practical and theoretical levels. He has built his own recording studio, and composes also in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris since 1993. Lionel Marchetti also performs improvisation using microphones and loudspeakers, as a duo with Jérôme Noetinger, with the collective Le Cube with (Christophe Auger, Étienne Caire, Christophe Cardoen, Xavier Quérel, Jérôme Noetinger, Gaëlle
Rouard) that performs live music and where films are shown and worked on interactively, and with the collective Archipel: Emmanuel Petit, Mathieu Werchowski, Sophie Agnel, Fabrice Charles, Pascal Battus. Since 1992, he organizes regular workshops centered on Radio and creation together with Olivier Capparos for France Culture. At the same time, he writes poetry, and develops theoretical thoughts on Musique concrete and the art of the loudspeaker.

Michel Chion about Lionel Marchetti:
„At the dawn of musique concrete, back in the 1950s, the music critics, closely following the new movement, soon acclaimed a great deal of the compositions – some perhaps too soon – as canonical. In my estimation, however, what truly deserves that status is many works by the musique concrete composers of the last 20 years, even though they have not received much attention in the press. To my mind, the characteristics of numerous compositions by Lionel Marchetti, including those featured in this collection, are fullness and perfection, a design both obscure and transparent at the same time, so t.......
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CD 1:
La Grande Vallée [20'40'']
Concrete music composed in 1993/1996 at INA-GRM (Paris-France)
Field recordings, electronic, analogic synthesiser, realisation and
composition : Lionel Marchetti
Voice : Hélene Bettencourt
Additives voices : Frédéric Malenfer, Bruno Roche
Bass clarinette : Jean Andréo
Sib clarinette : Lionel Marchetti
Portrait d'un glacier (Alpes, 2173m) [28'44'']
Concrete music composed in 1998/2000 at INA - GRM (Paris-France)
Field recordings, electronic, analogic synthesiser, realisation and
composition : Lionel Marchetti
Somme field recordings were realised with Bruno Roche in august 1993 :
Tré-la-tete glacier (massif du Mont-Blanc, Alpes, France)


CD 2:
Dans la montagne (Ki Ken Tai) [12'10'']
Concrete music composed in 1995/1996 at La Muse en Circuit - Alfortville
(France)
Field recordings, electronic, analogic synthesiser, realisation and
composition : Lionel Marchetti
The recordings of the French Kendo team (and a lot of Kendo sounds) were
guided by Bruno Roche in the Dojo
Additives voices : Hélene Bettencourt, Lionel Marchetti
L'oeil retourné [24'28'']
Concrete music composed in 1994/1997 at CFMI Lyon (France)
Field recordings, electronic, analogic synthesiser, realisation and
composition : Lionel Marchetti
Additive voice : Hélene Bettencourt
Quotations : Roger de la Frayssenet, Ralf Wehowsky, Josephine Leask, This
Heat, Blanche Neige and some radio station chaos…



Lionel Marchetti - nagrania terenowe, elektronika, syntezator analogowy

Lionel Marchetti (ur. w 1967r. we Francji) jest kompozytorem muzyki współczesnej. Początkowo samouk, odkrył muzykę konkretną dzięki Xavierovi
Garcii. W latach 1989-2002 komponował na wydziale CFMI.......
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